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Back pain led to loss of consciousness
My sister was having severe back pain since morning now she fell down lost consciousness for few seconds and regained again, there was loss of bladder and bowel control as well. she also had slurring of speech for sometime and not able to move. The back pain is severe.She had this similar incident one month back and we showed in neuro and they said it’s nothing just a syncope. Now again she had the exact same incident starting with severe back pain. She has L5 S1 nerve compression since 3 years and she is an athlete who trains regularly with weights. Mri is done. Attached reports.
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Dr. Akhil Sunil
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9 yrs exp
Kollam
mri Brian and spine looks ok
she should not lift weight, bend forward or sit /squat on the floor
All these will increase her back pain.
the loss of consciousness may be vaso vagal attack.
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